Highlights
Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Work Type: Onsite Job Description: An AWS Cloud Architect designs, deploys, and manages scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services while aligning technical blueprints with business goals.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Charlotte, NC |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $64.28–$67.85 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
Job Title: AWS Cloud Architect
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- An AWS Cloud Architect designs, deploys, and manages scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services while aligning technical blueprints with business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture Design: Translate business requirements into high-level system diagrams, network topologies, and multi-tier cloud strategies following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Core AWS Implementation: Build and manage environments using key services like Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, and AWS Lambda
- Migration & Modernization: Lead the migration of on-premises servers, databases, and applications to the cloud, including adopting containerization (Docker, Amazon EKS) and serverless patterns.
- Security & Compliance: Establish identity and access controls, network firewalls, encryption standards, and disaster recovery or high-availability protocols.
- Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit cloud spend, right-size compute instances, and tune resource allocation for efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the bridge between executive stakeholders, development teams, and DevOps engineers. As noted, a cloud architect's daily focus is primarily on strategic design and alignment rather than heavy coding.
Required Technical Skills
- AWS Services: Deep mastery of compute, storage, database, networking (Route 53, Direct Connect, VPN), and security tools.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
- DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Operating Systems: Strong Linux and Windows administration foundation
- AWS Services: Deep mastery of compute, storage, database, networking (Route 53, Direct Connect, VPN), and security tools.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
- DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Operating Systems: Strong Linux and Windows administration foundation
Years of Experience:
- 15 Years of Experience
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.